Historic Mining Disasters in Utah

Date	Mine Name	Location	Killed	Product	Type
05/01/1900	Winter Quarters 1 & 4	Scofield, UT	200	Coal	Explosion
08/15/1902	Park-Utah	Park City, UT	34	Lead/Zinc/Copper/Silver	Powder fumes
06/01/1910	Union Quarry	Devils Slide, UT	25	Limestone	Quarry explosion
01/21/1914	Boston	Bingham, UT	5	Copper	Fire
09/17/1914	Centennial-Eureka	Eureka, UT	11	Gold	Cave-in
03/08/1924	No. 2 (see Castle Gate Relief Exhibit)	Castle Gate, UT	172	Coal	Explosion
09/21/1924	Rains	Rains, UT	5	Coal	Explosion
02/06/1930	Standard	Standardville, UT	23	Coal	Explosion
03/08/1930	New Peerless	Lynn, UT	5	Coal	Explosion
03/14/1945	Kennilworth	Kennilworth, UT	7	Coal	Explosion
05/09/1945	No. 1	Sunnyside, UT	23	Coal	Explosion
07/16/1950	Lark, U.S. Smelting	Lark, UT	5	Lead, Zinc	Fire
1/05/1953	American Gilsonite Co.	Bonanza, UT	8	Gilsonite	Dust explosion
08/28/1963	Texas Gulf Sulfur Co.	Moab, UT	18	Potash	Gas explosion
12/16/1963	Carbon Fuel No. 2	Helper, UT	9	Coal	Explosion
12/19/1984	Emory Mining Co. Wilberg Mine	Orangeville, UT	27	Coal	Fire
08/06/2007	Crandall Canyon Mine	Emery County, UT	9*	Coal	Fall of face or rib (coal bump/bounce)

Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Safety and Health Research, “Mining Disasters (Incidents with 5 or more fatalities),” accessed August 25, 2008 from http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/statistics/disall.htm.

* Includes both the initial incident on 8/6/2007 where 6 lives were lost, and subsequent incident during the rescue efforts on 8/16/2007 that claimed the lives of three rescue workers.

This page was last updated August 25, 2008.